Synophis
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Serpentes |
Family: | Colubridae |
Subfamily: | Dipsadinae |
Genus: | Synophis Peracca, 1896 |
Synophis is a genus of snakes in the family Colubridae. The genus is endemic to northwestern South America.
Description
[edit]Snakes of the genus Synophis have unusual scalation on the top of the head. The internasal scales are very small, and the prefrontal scales are fused into one large plate.[1]
Species
[edit]The genus Synophis contains the following nine species which are recognized as being valid.[2]
- Synophis bicolor Peracca, 1896 - bicolored shadow snake, two-colored fishing snake
- Synophis bogerti Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 - Bogert's shadow snake
- Synophis calamitus Hillis, 1990 - calamitous shadow snake
- Synophis insulomontanus Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 - mountain shadow snake
- Synophis lasallei (Nicéforo-María, 1950) - La Salle's shadow snake
- Synophis niceforomariae Pyron, Arteaga, Echevarría, & Torres-Carvajal, 2016 - Nicéforo María's shadow snake
- Synophis plectovertebralis Sheil & T. Grant, 2001 - braided shadow snake
- Synophis zaheri Pyron, Guayasamin, Peñafiel, Bustamante & Arteaga, 2015 - Zaher's shadow snake
- Synophis zamora Torres-Carvajal, Echevarría, Venegas, Chávez & Camper, 2015 - Zamoran shadow snake
Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Synophis.
References
[edit]- ^ Peracca (1896).
- ^ Genus Synophis at The Reptile Database.
Further reading
[edit]- Peracca MG (1896). "Nuovo genere di Colubride aglifo dell'America meridionale ". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia comparata della R[egia]. Università di Torino 11 (266): 1–2. (Synophis, new genus). (in Italian).
- Pyron, R. Alexander; Arteaga, Alejandro; Echevarría, Lourdes Y.; Torres-Carvajal, Omar (2016). "A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis ". Zootaxa 4171 (2): 293–320.